(Sent from my phone.) On 10/07/2011, at 23:04, Karl Berry <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I can't imagine that rewriting the world is either feasible or > desirable. > Presumably "deprecated" means "if you want new functionality use new > primitives, existing primitives will keep working as they always > have". Sure, but not usefully with Unicode fonts. The best solution we have (taken by polyglossia) is to avoid babel for Unicode use (ie with xelatex or lualatex). Unfortunately polyglossia is xelatex-only at present... W